Maryland Sheep and Wool

I had such a great time last weekend at the Maryland Sheep and Wool festival – despite the mud. We made friends with alpacas.

and Elijah enjoyed meeting the sheep.

I saw lots of my knits out in the wild including Poppy above

Liesl and Coraline

A lot of the time it felt like I’d fallen into the internet – it was fun to meet so many online people at the ravelry meet ups.

And I accidentally discovered the best marketing technique ever – make the weather miserable so that Jess, Casey and Mary Heather want to raid my sample suitcase for cosy accessories. Here’s Jess in Ishbel

And Casey and Mary Heather in Cairn and Verity – all of these were so perfect for them that I felt bad taking them back

The whole weekend was so much fun that I’m now planning on going to Rhinebeck.

Pricing patterns has always been one of the hardest parts of designing and I’ve often felt like the “standard” price of knitting patterns is both lower than other similar products (eg. indie sewing patterns) and doesn’t really reflect the amount of work that goes into them. At the same time, it’s totally fair to worry that rising pattern prices will price people out.